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Slide Rule Shelvey One thing I really like about Jonjo Shelvey is that he’ll play the risky ambitious or “hollywood” pass as it’s become known. Admittedly he sometimes does it too much but he’s now learning when to take this option and his assist for the first goal was sublime. He and Bafetimbi Gomis are

Michael Martin of True Faith fanzine answers our questions for this weeks opposition view. How long have you supported Newcastle and what was your first game? Since the early 1970s. The first game I can remember being at was Malcolm Macdonald’s debut when Supermac was born with a 3-2 home win over Liverpool at St

As part of a new feature for the website this year we will bring you ten interesting facts about our opponents each time they visit the Liberty. We start with the first visitors to south Wales this term – Newcastle United The club was founded in 1892 by the merging of two clubs – Newcastle

The season started with a bang yesterday as the Swans produced a fantastic performance at Stamford Bridge, here’s five things from the game The Tannoy Announcer Can someone please politely tell him in future to keep his voice down. Anyone who was in the stadium 15 minutes before kick off I’m sure will understand what

Seeing as there’s now a bit of a lull in news during the summer break, I decided to have a look at our individual record against each team we’ve faced since we won promotion to the Premier League four years ago. I’ve comprised a table below detailing each result against each opponent across the last

The fixture man clearly likes to see Swansea City suffer a defeat on the opening day of the campaign. In three of our four previous Premier League season’s we have been paired with Manchester City and twice with Manchester United and now today saw the news that we will open 2015/6 with a trip to

I’ve been to well in excess of 500 live games during my lifetime. Most of them follow a similar pattern; enter the ground shortly before kick off where the atmosphere is fairly subdued to reasonable before there’s a sudden lift as the teams enter the field. On a handful of occasions when I’ve taken my place

The player reviews have reached the midfielders today. Let’s have a look how they got on this term. Leon Britton Nearly every campaign in south Wales has been a success for Leon since he arrived at the club in December 2002 but there’s no way he will look back on this one with any real

Our player review piece continues and today we look at how the defenders fared. Angel Rangel Over the last couple of years Rangel has started to look a little bit shaky but has never found his place in the team under threat due to the back-up options not being at the required standard. However the

Now the season is over let’s have a look at how each individual member of the squad performed. Over the next few days we will bring you the defenders, midfielders and strikers but today we start with the men between the sticks. We have used the star rating system of Lukasz Fabianski The “Big Pole

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